What even is MSG? Is it bad for you?

Chemistry For Your Life · Dec 7, 2023 · 47m

#175

MSG! The ingredient many of us reference but few of us know anything about. What is it? Why does it make things taste so good? What's in it? Is it bad for us? If not, why does everyone think it is?

References from this Episode

https://youtu.be/VJw8r_YWJ9k

https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/08/25/msg/

https://www.nature.com/articles/1602526

https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/glutamate/3005790.article

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/enterocyte

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10942912.2017.1295260

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